Autovehicle-signal



R. C. BODLE. Au'rovEmcLE |GNAL.' APPLICATION FILED FEB. 21, I918.

Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

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-RAYMOND C. BOIJLE, OF AKRON, OHIO.

AurovnHrcLE-sremm Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

Application filed February 21, 1918. Serial No. 218,540.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAYMOND C. Boone, a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Antovehicle-Signals, of which the following is a specification. it

The invention is designed for the principal purpose of providing a direction indicating signal. to be attached to the forward and rear ends of an auto vehicle, whereby the direction to be taken by a driver of a certain vehicle may be indicated to drivers in his front and in his rear.

To the exact construction in which it is shown and described, the invention is not to be restricted. The right is reserved to make such changes or alterations as the actual reduction to practice may suggest, in so far as such changes or alterations are compre= hended in spirit by the subjoined claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure l is a perspective view of the signaling mechanism per se, i

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View through the indicator casing,

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 55-45 of Fig. l,

Fig. 4: is a section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 4,

Fig. 5 is a View in elevation of the indicator,

Fig. 6 is a section on the line 8-8 of Fig. 4,

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a longitudinally movable rod member 3 having a laterally projecting pin 4 for engagement in the slot 9 of a foot lever 5. The footlever 5 is mounted for oscillating movement on one side of a sector plate 6, which has a lateral base flange T by means of which it is attached to the foot board of the vehicle. The lever 5 at its top end is provided with a foot plate 10 and is further provided with a lateral projection (not shown) for engagement in any one of the recesses 11 formed in the sector plate 6 on the circular edge thereof.

For mounting on the forward and rearends of the vehicle there are casings 12 which are supported on the vehicle in any suitable manner. Each of these casings holds an indicating element 13 which is in the form of a trihedra'l prism on the three sides of which there are painted or otherwise attached, the words Stop, Right and Left, respectively. The element 13 is supported on a shaft 14, which is journalcd in the top and bottom walls of the casing 12 and medially disposed with reference to the width of the casing. Collars l5 surrounding the shaft abut the top and bottom walls of the casing, and thereby prevent longitudinal movement of the shaft. (in the exposed face of the casing, there is provided a rectangular opening 16 and reflectors are secured at the vertical sides of the opening, so that they may reflect the light from the lamps 18 onto the indicating element when any one of the three sides of the latter is made to face the opening, as it is in the operationv of the device. The lights are designed to be illuminated by a source .(not shown).

The shaft 14; carries both above and below the indicating element 13, the grooved pulleys 19, and in the bottom of these'grooves, there is securely attached one end of a cable or flexible band 20, there being such a band for each pulley. At the other end these cables 20 connect with the springs 21, the remaining ends of the two springs being attached to opposite side walls of the casing, so that they may oppose each other in ten sional effort. The springs and their connections with the pulleys 19 are so arranged that they operate normally to hold the indicating element 13 in such a position that the vertical edge formed by the juncture of the two sides on which Stop and Right are printed stands directly back of the transverse center of the opening 16.

The shafts 14 extendthrough the bottoms of the casings 12 a sufficient distance to bring the pulleys 23 carried at the bottom ends of the shafts in the same plane with the plane of the rod member 3, and steadying bearings formed in brackets 22 which are attached to the vehicle body serve to support the shafts on these downwardly projecting ends. The pulleys 23 are grooved on their peripheries and in the bottom of the groove of each, there is attached one end of a cable 24, the two cables being trained over pulleys '25 mounted on the bottom of the forward and rear ends of the frame, and effecting suitable connections with the opposite ends of the rod 3.

The cables 24: are so connected to the pulleys 23 that when the indicating elements 13 stand in their normal positions, the ends of the cables almost completely surround the ment to them and to the shafts 14. It will rod exerts a posing to the openings 16 of the casing, the

be noted that the cables 24 connect with the rod after being trained over pulleys and are so positioned with respect to the ends of the rod that the longitudinal movement of the pull on both cables, thereby exwords Right, Left or Stop, depending on which of the recesses 11, the lateral proj ection on the lever 5 is made to engage.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

An automobile signal comprising a casing, a trihedral prism, a shaft on which the prism is carried, the shaft being journaled in the'top and bottom walls of the casing with reference to the width of which the prism is medially disposed, collars carried on the shaftv and abutting respectively the top and bottom walls of the casing, the easing being provided in its front wall with an opening opposite the said prism, reflectors secured to the vertical sides of the opening in diagonal positions with reference to the casing, illuminating members carried within the casing and disposed adjacent to the reflectors, a pair of opposed tension springs operatively connected to the shaft so that the prism may be held normally in a position where one of its corner edges is disposed opposite the said opening, and means for rotating the shaft in either direction so that anyone of the sides of the prism may be exposed through the opening when the light from the illuminating members will be caused to illuminate said exposed face by the reflectors.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

RAYMOND C. BODLE. 

